Mike Huckabee urges tea party to vote for Mitt Romney

The State, SC ^ | November 22, 2011 | Staff

[iowamark]

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee gave his thoughts on the 2012 Republican presidential candidates Sunday in an interview with WABC’s Aaron Klein. As the candidates continue to trade rankings in the national polls, Huckabee, who won the Iowa caucuses in his own election bid in 2008, spoke of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s chances of winning the primary. The former Republican presidential candidate urged conservative Republicans to support Romney because he believes the former Massachusetts Gov. has the best chance of defeating Barack Obama in 2012.

“Mitt Romney may not be their first choice, but Mitt Romney every day of the week and twice on Sunday is going to be a much more effective president for issues that they care about than Barack Obama,” Huckabee told Klein. “I think sometimes there is this anxiety within the Republican Party of who is the perfect candidate. The answer is there isn’t one,” the former Arkansas governor added.

Romney came in second behind Huckabee in the 2008 Iowa caucuses, largely because of Huckabee’s popularity among social conservatives in the state. A Bloomberg poll of likely Iowa voters last week showed a four way tie between Romney, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. Huckabee’s popularity in Iowa could work in Romney’s favor as the countdown to the Iowa caucuses begins.

The former Arkansas governor urged Tea Party Republicans to throw their support behind Romney. “I think Republicans and conservatives and the Tea Party need to get behind him and say, ‘You may not be our first choice, but between you and Obama, I’ll vote 40 times to get you elected,” Huckabee said.

[Breto]

Hey Gomer STFU

[throwback]

What does Mitt say when the topic of health care insurance surfaces in the debate with Obama? Next...candidate, that is.

[Biggirl]

No more RINOS.

[NoRedTape]

Huckabee needs to stick to his milqetoasted TV show and OUT of politics. Romney? No Way.

[Biggirl]

Supporting Romney WILL make more likely Obama to get re-elected.

[Recovering_Democrat]

...and behold, the angel poured out the fifth bowl upon the land, and great confusion there was amongst the peoples thereof.

And a mighty man who once was great, then diminished, was given a cable show. And the man who once despised the wanderer from the NorthEast said to the peoples: "Listen now, say I, to the Northeast prophet. He doth speak some things hard to understand, but he is a great deal better than the abider of alinskyite heresy!"

And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

;-)

[snowrip]

Dummy.

[meatloaf]

Huckabee’s sellout doesn’t make sense. Romney is an anathema as far as what the Tea Party believes. Is Romney getting desperate?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Never liked him.

And he proved me right.

[arkady_renko]

...get behind him and say, ‘You may not be our first choice, but between you and Obama, I’ll vote 40 times to get you elected,” Huckabee said.

That is funny, right there! Imagine the rally. Signs that read,

"Go Mitt, Not Our First Choice, But, Whatever..." Or,

"Huck Says To Vote 40 Times For Mitt!"

This has to be satire.

[ken5050]

"I'll vote 40 times...."???

So, he's advocating election fraud...??

[Enosh]

Yeah, no.

[Prokopton]

Reinforces that I was correct in never being for Huckabee

[Recovering_Democrat]

BW, I think if Huckster had NOT meddled, Romney would have won the nomination in 2008. Do you? If not, who else could have beaten McCain?

The two things that did Romney in in 2008 were Huckabee and Charlie Crist. When Crist endorsed McCain in Florida, that ruined Romney’s chances in that state....

[ejonesie22]

Wow, like I am so shocked the nanny state SOB did this!

Shocked I say!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Shut The Huck Up!

[Designer]

Huckabee losing relevance, trying to reinsert himself.

It's not working.

[Yaelle]

Huck urged his son not to torture dogs. That didn't work either. Huck urged people to exercise and eat right to lose weight, while he sneaked off and got a bypass and lied about it. Huck urged people not to see the cross superimposed in his Christmas message. We'd be better off ignoring Huck's urges.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I second that!!!

[org.whodat]

Huckster is for huckster, just like the rino’s newt and willard.